There was of course a lot of creative writing going on and so largely you left it up to the writers to look forward. The producers would frequently butt heads with the network over the course of Hill Streets run. towards Steven (Bochco) and Michael Kozoll. HSB.net: Can you tell us a little about how the show was structured with regards to forward planning, for example Kiel Martin Detective J.D. Actors came and went: Ken Olin, Mimi Kuzyk, Megan Gallagher, Lisa Sutton. A relatively minor character, Oberman always keeps his cool and rarely raises his voice. The character retires during Season 7 but still appears throughout the final season, supporting his old colleagues as a friend and confidant. Bochco: We created a euphemistic language that suggested the raunchiness of the cop world, and it worked. Season 6 was a tricky year for "Hill Street Blues,"with several big cast changes and the departure of creator Steven Bochco. "Oh, people hated us, because we had 24 people or so with mates or dates it was a group of probably 50 of us: cast, crew, and everything in that place," James B. Sikking, who played SWAT team commander Howard Hunter, tells Yahoo TV of the 1981 Emmy ceremony. Weitz: The one person with enormous experience in front of the camera was Michael Conrad, and he, in the beginning, had trouble adjusting. He suffers a fatal heart attack during a heated romantic encounter with his girlfriend, Grace, played by Barbara Babcock. Dont bother me. And the third one came out and Steven wrote, Moon Over Uranus: The Final Chapter. Just to stick it in their ears. I called Bochco and he and Hoblit come Though the show was filmed in California, the Maxwell Street Police Station in Chicago was used as the exterior of the precinct in the closing credits. 2. That's where the coroner comes in. Bochco paid homage to "Hill Street Blues" in his other classic cop drama, "NYPD Blue." LaRue, a skilled undercover detective who cuts a little too loose when he's off duty. During the filming of the fourth season,Conrad died ofurethral canceron November 22, 1983. That was not my style. Jan 2, 1991. going. Marinaro says the enduring influence of "Hill Street Blues" can be summed up as the way the series portrayed its characters in a realistic light. Kiel Martin was cast as LaRue, a slick detective. Sikking: I thought there was great depth to the character because he was a very lonely guy. The work is what you have to do to earn respect.". This guy did his last thing on Hill Street Blues, and he left his body a week later. on to a desolate inner city street, with a police car speeding out of it! Joe: This was the first time I actually worked with him. Detective Harry Garibaldi (Ken Olin) is propped up in his place and becomes a continuing character, but seems very much like a cardboard cutout in these shows and delivers a lot of dialogue that sounds like it was written for LaRue. 13. Outside of "Hill Street Blues," Conrad was mainly a hardworking television actor, appearing on shows as varied as "Little House on the Prairie"and "The Incredible Hulk"to "All in the Family" and "The Bob Newhart Show." practical jokes on each other. In front are L to R: Michael Warren, Kiel Martin, Joe Spano, and Bruce Weitz. Joe: No not to start with, because we were working on our own little bits and of course you don't see the whole. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Actor Kiel Martin, who played shady detective Johnny ``J.D.'' Hill Street did not come off as a real police station. You know yourself if it seemed right, but your fellow actors are also working on their part and unless it is a very special I was young and dumb and took a shot there. contact with. 'Paris' was another production where some of the Hill Street HSB.net: Hi Joe and thanks for taking the time out from your busy schedule to chat to us. After 'Hill Street Blues' ended, Spano appeared in series like 'Murder One,' 'The X-Files,' and 'NYPD Blue.' In one episode, Belker was undercover at a butcher shop. Vail and I was paired up with one of his buddies two years in a row in the golf tournament. Marinaro decided he was done in Season 6. LaRue of Hill Street Blues. But everything sort of gelled, my character worked well with everyone else, and He's bad with money, he's bad with alcohol, and bad with women. Joe: (laughing): I was never a bow tie man but I think I may still have one or two hanging around at home. Bruce Weitz, who won an Emmy for portraying Sgt. "Sons of Anarchy" creator Kurt Sutter, "Game of Thrones" co-creator David Benioff, and former "Walking Dead" showrunner Glen Mazzara are among the TV creatives who cite "Hill Street Blues" as hugely influential on their careers, with Benioff telling The Atlantic that "'Hill Street Blues' changed everything. Travanti: He added a great deal to that character. Sikking: The guy called up, he was screaming, You cant put that on there. Steven said, I can, too. Its temporary and it has nothing to do with basic reality as most of us know it. NBC was in last place. Michael and I agreed that we would do it on one condition: Well do this pilot for you on the condition that youll leave us completely alone to do whatever we want. ", 19. Matt Weiner (Mad Men) and Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) and David Chase (The Sopranos) and all these people ought to wake up every morning and send a note to Hill Street Blues. . LaRue, a self-styled ladies' man, on "Hill Street Blues." Andy Renko. Haid: We really did not know what was going on and how popular it was until we got all those Emmy nominations. Haid: We would come up with every euphemism for masturbation we could come up with. "Steven put a reference to him in one of the shows. Lucille Bates. Of course what you are doing at the moment is the most important thing in Outside of his duty as a cop, his life is marred by poor choices. It was well-written, boldly directed and creatively revolutionary. He was the guy selling drugs. Then he knew and he said to everybody. He was 91 years old (via The Hollywood Reporter). Sometimes causing delay or retakes in production, much to the annoyance of the on set accountant. they decided to keep me alive! Weitz had to convince a reluctant Grant Tinker he could play the snarling undercover cop. 4. It just changed the rules of TV, its producer, Steven Bochco, said in an interview. But the growl was the writers idea and all the hairbags and all that slang was all theirs. When it premiered on NBC in January 1981, Hill Street was unlike anything else on American television. Everything Everywhere All at Once Discussion, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Discussion. Bochco: By the time this thing went on the air, I think we had 11 regulars. J.D. Among the future stars who made "Hill Street Blues" guest appearances: Don Cheadle, James Cromwell, Forest Whitaker, CCH Pounder, Chris Noth, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Robbins, Andy Garcia, Edward James Olmos, Cuba Gooding Jr., Danny Glover, "Terminator" parents Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn, Frances McDormand, Alfre Woodard, and a pre-Kramer Michael Richards. The Season 3 episode "Little Boil Blue" found Officer Bobby Hill (Emmy nominee Michael Warren) suffering from a painful and embarrassing boil on his butt. And Hunter says, 'You mean like that colored entertainer?' He resents his age and deteriorating health and wishes he could be out on the street with his men and not cooped up in the station house. Also of course Michael Kozoll was the writer. ", "Cops responded so well to the show because we didn't portray them as superheroes. RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. -- Kiel Martin, 46, the actor who played shady detective Johnny "J.D." LaRue on the former NBC television series "Hill Street Blues," died Dec. 28 at his desert home here. He had lung cancer. The sum was truly greater than its parts. Bochco and Kozoll met with the network brass. His final film, 1989's "UHF," is dedicated to his memory. Veronica Hamel . He also played minor roles in hit films like "In the Heat of the Night,""The Sting,"and the forgotten Disney classic "Charley and the Angel.". Weitz: Occasionally theyd see me do something in dailies and add it to the script. Bochco: Personalities were just so volatile. It was clearly something very different to other programs of the Hill Street Blues was a popular police drama that ran on NBC from 1981 until 1987. "Steven Bochco was on set that night, and he came to me and said, 'Joe Coffey's life is in the hand of your agents right now,'" Marinaro tells Yahoo TV. 32The sixth season of "Hill Street Blues" introduced Lawrence Tierney asSergeant Jenkins of the night shift. I heard he said afterwards, theres no way I cant offer him the job. Throughout the first four seasons, Conrad starred as Sergeant Phil Esterhaus, the wise and paternal authority figure who cared for the safety of the officers under his command. stage at Berekely Rep and Magic Theater in the Bay Area. "We were anything but heroes. Sikking, however, saw his humanity. Currently you are able to watch "Hill Street Blues" streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu or buy it as download on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Vudu. Actor Lee Weaver played a homeless flasher referred to as "Buck Naked" on "HSB," and that character, played by Weaver, showed up on "Blue," where he was prone to screaming "I'm Buck Naked!" But Haid was a busy man with a recent role in the film Altered States and a medical pilot in the works. It was initially reported that he died of pancreatic cancerin 1990, but it was later revealed that he actually died due to complications from AIDS. Debuting in 1981, "Hill Street Blues"is one such show. Then Bochco asked me what I thought and I suggested doing something opposite to that, light but conveying the non stop excitement The tune became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981, earned a pair of Grammys, and is part of a body of work that inspired Pete Townsend to write the song "Mike Post Theme" for The Who's 2006 album "Endless Wire.". 11. [4], Original reports said Enrquez died of pancreatic cancer. Generations of children know Larry D. Mann as the voice of Yukon Cornelius from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,"the stop-motion holiday classic. Marinaro: I asked to leave. he told People. On the stage, he starred in productions in Washington D.C. and New York City, including "Camping with Henry and Tom"and "Democracy.". Director Rick Wallace Writers Michael Kozoll Steven Bochco (story by) Jeffrey Lewis (teleplay by) The actor kept his diagnosis private, likely due to the stigma associated with the disease, particularly in the 1980s, but he did confide to co-starCharles Haid that he was suffering from the disease. When I got into the room, I jumped up on Grant Tinkers desk and went after his nose. Nobody will ever see it. But (Standards) said, Youve been so successful, it could get an Emmy: And the winner is Hill Street Blues segment Moon Over Uranus. We cant have that. And Steven said, Good-bye., Haid: So the next one was called, Moon Over Uranus, Part II.. not so ready to remember their time doing it. Joe Santos appeared in small roles in a handful of films in the late 1960s, but his first major film was 1971's "The Panic in Needle Park,"with Al Pacino and Kiel Martin. Bochco: It was a teeming world. His marriage to wifeGloria Kochberg lasted for nearly 70 years, only ending with his death from natural causes on January 6, 2014. Ill see this cast and this show over my dead body. Travanti: They said I was the first guy they called in. The death-during-sex character refers to Sgt. They went berserk. Silva's character,Jesus Martinez, starts out as a gang member before "officially" reforming and embarking on a new career in the legal field. Conrad (to Playboy, 1983): My greatest joy was sitting in a restaurant with these good-looking guys Ed Marinaro, Michael Warren, Chuck Haid and Bruce Weitz when this mature lady came up and said to me, I just love you.. Bochco got his way. Michael Warren . Actor Pat Corley only appeared in five episodes of "Hill Street Blues" in its third season, but he proved popular enough to make a final guest appearance in Season 6. This article about an American television actor born in the 1930s is a stub. "They were negotiating a deal. In the theatre everything is much more intermit, with a stronger connection and WebMartin, 46, a regular performer on the Emmy-winning series, died Friday of cardiovascular collapse caused by lung cancer, Michael Werk, deputy coroner for Riverside County, reported Monday. It was great people loved these shows but it wasnt Hill Street Blues.. We were thrilled, absolutely thrilled. He was 82 years old (via Los Angeles Times). course some wanted to expand more than others. And it was everybody versus the network suits. After the war, he became an actor and appeared in dozens of films and television shows, frequently playing lawmen. [Laughs.] Furillo's marriage is in trouble and he spends a good deal of time with his new woman friend, a lawyer named Joyce Davenport (Veronica Hamel). At the age of 84, Santos suffered a heart attack. If you thought one person in the world ever was not going to die, it was Michael Conrad. Brett Martins assessment in his 2013 book Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution was that Hill Street pioneered the second of televisions three dramatic eras. Haid used his leverage to get a really good deal to play the good-ol-boy officer. Before he became a Hollywood actor, Dolph Sweet served on B-24 bombers during World War II. You could not started a whole new career as a writer, writing about 30 books for kids and young adults mystery and science fiction, mainly! HSB.net: Did you get a chance to make changes? Across 15 episodes between Season 3 and Season 6, actor Larry D. Mann appeared as JudgeLee Oberman. Kiel's return. Cast members Charles Haid, Ed Marinaro, James B. Sikking and Bruce Weitz spoke with CNN on the phone. Not his usual role, he told Playboy in 1983. We could put a human face on these people. ", [Related: Steven Bochco on Slowing Down: 'I'm Just Old']. Unusually there were no egos and The series ratings for its first season were less impressive. Bochco also wanted to cast Charles Haid. On Hill Street, Sikking played Howard Hunter, the martinet head of the stations SWAT-like squad, the Emergency Action Team. I can even remember cast members giving a round of applause after a difficult portrayal was The hardest part to cast was the police captain, Francis X. Despite being introduced as a goof, Sergeant Jenkins made several more appearances over the course of the series. Belker looks at her and said, Lady, could you pass a test like that?. "Ironic, isn't it?" Bochco left after Season 5. Haid: Steven said, Im doing a show over at MTM. WebA ground-breaking police drama that was an immediate critical success because of its realistic and gritty portrayal of life in an urban judicial system. A notable Season 2 episode,"The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded," nearly sees LaRue's alcoholism get him fired from the force for good. We won everything. Where does a Teamster make the kind of money to have a gold Rolex? It took audiences a full year to figure out what the hell we were doing. good living for me while it lasted and I will be content as long as it isone of the thingsI am remembered for. co-ordinator for a TV show called Falcon Crest. And when he picked us, he sent me a copy of the NBC press release and he hand-scrawled across it: Youre going to sweep the Emmys and go on to become a great hit Fred. Thats exactly what happened. Repeat after me: Good. Frank Furillo. God bless him. Sadly, he passed away from cancer in 1990. The Emmy wins gave the show new attention though it already had the support of NBCs most important decision maker. Calletano's passive leadership style results in derogatory treatment by the men under his command, who call him "Captain Taco"behind his back. Co-star Daniel J. Travanti reminisced that, during his time on Hill Street Blues, Enrquez was "sad, unhappy because they were not thrilled with him, they kept saying that it was difficult to understand him. WebIt was still very popular when it was canceled but Kiel told me the huge success brought big increases in pay to the actors and the producers decided to do another show, NYPD His most famous teammate: Lew Alcindor, aka Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. this super tough guy on the outside I visualized him as lonely and hurt on the inside and fortunately for us, the writer had the same I was a free agent again, and I auditioned for Hill Street Blues. Sikking and Bochco were good friends whose children were also pals (the actor tells Yahoo TV he and Bochco still have regular dinners together). Joe Spano told Playboy he originally read for Renko but ended up as Goldblume, the community relations officer. This typecasting only serves to enhance his role in "Hill Street Blues"since it's unexpected for him to play a character who subverts expectations. Kiel made it back, super clean I might ad, and Ken Olin's character was subsequently killed off for You wear out your welcome. His best known work was as a regular in "Murphy Brown,"starring Candice Bergen. He then was cremated and his ashes were flown over the gathering and If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. "Every time they named somebody from the show, we'd scream 'Yay!' 1. Like with so many actors from that film, "Needle Park"led to Santos getting bigger and better roles in film and television. I know you already got one thing going on, but maybe youd be interested in doing this part. The original part was a guy named Flannery who was going to be Furillo. pulled off by one of the number and on the odd occasion been moved to tears by story line, particularly the scene where Veronica Hamel He was an actor, known for Hill Street Blues (1981), The Panic in Needle Park (1971) and The Ray But take my word for it it did not go onto the set. Kind of isolated loner actor. When I started, I was supposed to be doing a guest spot a four-episode arc LaRue (Kiel Martin), to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. So we scripted everything. But they were insistent that thats what they wanted. The husky tough-guy actor gives a tremendous performance in his scant few scenes; it's a testament to series lead Daniel J. Travanti that he is able to match Sweet during the more emotionally-charged moments. myself were all involved at some time. Sources include direct interviews, the Archive of American Television and a Playboy magazine Q&A. I real don't know LaRue. It was a serialized mixture of drama and comedy featuring diverse, colorful and three-dimensional characters the policemen and policewomen of the rundown Hill Street Station. The cremation canister was given to the stationhouse and everybody went by and shook it and did things like that. In the second season episode, The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded, Martins character LaRue was demoted to the motor pool for falling off the wagon. WebKiel Martin . Joe: He is not wrong, when you are involved with a film, or TV production and are doing a scene, there is no real Trinidad Silva popped up in 28 episodes of "Hill Street Blues," debuting in the 1981 pilot and making his final appearance in Season 7's "A Pound of Flesh," the penultimate episode of the series. Hill Street Blues Actors You May Not Know Passed Away. The 1981-87 NBC cop drama (which just got the Complete Series DVD treatment) not only helped turn around a last-place network, but it's no hyperbole to say the show changed television, for the better, in a way that current Golden Age of Television viewers continue to benefit from. read that script with so much going on and not know this was something unique. In the final three episodes of Season 4, Joe Santos stars as Jimmy Lastarza, a mafia goon trying to force video poker machines on local taverns. Then theyd turn the camera around on us and hed have to do it again. completed working on a television pilot (Home Free) that I helped create and produce in 1988 for NBC. I One of the saddest events of Hill Streets run involved Michael Conrad. On the big screen, he made a notable appearance in 1974's "The Longest Yard," alongside Burt Reynolds. More surprisingly: Travanti made commercials for Almaden wine. ACTOR KIEL MARTIN DIES AT 46 RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. -- Kiel Martin, 46, the actor who played shady detective Johnny "J.D." HSB.net: Well thanks for talking to us Joe, it will make a lot of people happy to hear your point of view and we Theyll take things from what they see in you, but theyre able to see beyond the bulls***. Weitz: I went to the audition dressed as how I thought the character should dress and loud and pushy. NBC wasnt thrilled with the way things were going. Margaritas make me salivate. Thats Hill Street.. And wed react a little bit off camera. "Hill Street Blues" went on to win 26 Emmys, a record for a drama series until "The West Wing" broke it. 18. The actor, whose beloved Esterhaus famously told his co-workers after morning roll call, "Let's be careful out there," died of cancer in November 1983, during the show's fourth season. Martin, 46, a regular performer on He was, an interest in acting, and prior to my retirement for football, I had worked in an acting class in New York, soI dont know that you But he had excellent timing. Writing. Ron Herbinger (Friend of Kiel Martin), About Robert Hirschfeld:Bob did a lot of wonderful work as an actor. Hill Street Blues Kiel Martin Johnny "J.D." Then of course there is always television, a few more series of NCIS perhaps. Haid: This guy died with his boots on, literally. Sikking: We had (punning) titles on all of our shows. Was it a handful, that kind of creativity? It was a tremendous loss personally for everybody, professionally and especially a man like that who was like a block of granite. Sadly, he passed away in 2006 due to congestive heart failure. This culminates in a hostage situation on a prison bus that pulls no punches and is one of the scariest and most intense sequences in the entire series. After his plane was shot down on a mission, he served two years as a Prisoner of War. four episodesand was scheduled to die in the final episode. Joe: It has been a pleasure chatting to you guys and I promise I will put a good word in with those I am still in Here are twelve "Hill Street Blues" actors you may not know passed away. But sobriety is the keystone of who I am now.". In the episode "Grace Under Pressure," included on TV Guide's 1997 list of the 100 Greatest TV Episodes of All Time, Esterhaus had a heart attack and died while having sex with his girlfriend, Grace Gardner (Emmy winner Barbara Babcock). Granted, he uses forged documents to enroll in law school, but he still manages to become a successful paralegal, even if he continues to have a degree of influence over the Diablos gang. This is my cast. LaRue on the former NBC He reprised the role in eight made-for-TV movies in the 1990s. Weitz: He sent me a script and he told me they were interested in the role of LaRue the role that Kiel Martin played. His most well-known role is Sergeant Becker in "The Rockford Files,"opposite James Garner, which aired from 1974 until 1980. 2. Travanti: We won eight (Emmys). He got his start in a 1968 episode of "N.Y.P.D.," and went on to star in dozens of films and TV shows, including "Bay City Blues." But if you see the episodes, you see how much fun we were having. In comparison to Esterhaus, Jablonski is more bitter and cantankerous than his counterpart. With rare exceptions, every episode of the show took place over the course of a single day, beginning with roll call and ending with the characters played byDaniel J. Travanti and Veronica Hamel discussing the events of the day, usually in the context of pillow talk. Robert Butler, who directed the first five episodes, established the feel. Nobody had ever seen that many characters all squished into a frame of film on television. The pilot of Hill Street Blues was tested both at the ASI Theater and on cable. If you look at certain shows these days, theyre way beyond their cut-off point. Mike Kozoll didnt particularly want to do another cop show. Conrad earned critical praise for his performance, winning two Emmy Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category. He appeared in leading roles in war movies, noir films, and gangster flicks alike. Travanti: What is the key to everything? [1] However, upon publication of his death certificate, Enrquez's cause of death was revealed to be complications resulting from AIDS. Joyce Davenport. Well, whack my monkey, Bobby Hill! We would go on and on. Following the conclusion of "Homicide," Kotto mostly retired, though he made sporadic appearances in his later years. times, I would often have no idea what others actors were doing. This is a section for those 'fleeting recollections' and other thoughts about HSB by those that were part of it, if you wish to add Its ratings didnt grow at all last season. WebActor Kiel Martin, who played shady detective Johnny J.D. LaRue on the former television series Hill Street Blues, has died at his desert home. Martin was once in contention for the lead role in the Oscar winning film Midnight Cowboy. And we knew, once you find out a guys got thin skin, hes toast. She said, Ed, well have to reschedule because I have this meeting. I said OK. There was a feeling of responsibility many of us felt But Bochco never flinched. Anything with a tie and a white shirt. HSB.net:Was there an indication for those of you on the inside that the series was going to be such a success On Hill Street, Sikking played Howard Hunter, the martinet head of the stations SWAT-like squad, the Emergency Action Team. Coffey's girlfriend is sexually assaulted. Belker puts the chicken away, picks up another chicken. Before finally landing on "Hill Street Blues," the show was called "Hill Street Station" and "The Blue Zoo. A character said, Lets take him down to the worst part of Hill Street. He was 76 years old, per the Los Angeles Times. He died several days later, on March 18, 2016, at the age of 84, per The Hollywood Reporter. Bochco: We bring them all over, and I hear that (NBC head of casting) Joel Thurm has said, theyre all too dark. Conrad died on November 22, 1983, during the series fourth season. Dennis Franz joined the cast. Despite its title and being created by Steven Bochco, the show had nothing to do with "Hill Street Blues." Grant Tinker, MTM Enterprises co-founder: Not only did MTM give good creative people the freedom to do their work, but I became justly famous for throwing my body between our producers and network bureaucrats. It One can only imagine what he could have achieved had he not been killed in such a senseless accident. Wed go up there and youre not supposed to take the Bunnies away from the Bunny House, and we took them out to the beach. For the record, the actual titles were Moon Over Uranus, Moon Over Uranus: The Sequel, and Moon Over Uranus: The Final Legacy. They all aired consecutively in Season 3. Actors' real lives were not the only ones mined for storyline inspiration. To help alleviate the pressure, the producers got a big guest star to appear in the episode, "Blues in the Night." Sopranos fan? Updated His final television appearance was in a 2006 episode of "The Sopranos." 14. over to hear it and instantly we all knew we had found what we wanted, something that would exactly go with the film. Robert Prosky replaced Conrad. Female police officers still tend to be looked upon with less trust and respect than male officers and are treated more as sex objects in their departments. 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